COPE2Thrive Creator and Founder of COPE2Thrive, LLC/ Biosketch

Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD, APRN-CNP, FAANP, FNAP, FAAN

Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk is a pediatric nurse practitioner, a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner with a PhD in clinical research, and a nationally/internationally recognized expert and researcher in evidence-based practice (EBP), intervention research, child & adolescent mental health, and health & wellness. She is a frequent keynote speaker at national/international conferences on these topics.

Dr. Melnyk has led the EBP movement in nursing across the U.S. for the past two decades and has consulted with hundreds of healthcare systems and academic institutions throughout the nation and globe on how to improve healthcare quality and population health outcomes through EBP. Her record as principal investigator includes over 33 million dollars of sponsored funding from federal agencies and foundations. She is an editor of five books and over 400 publications, including two American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Awards.

Bern is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Nursing, the National Academies of Practice, and the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. She served a four-year term on the United States Preventive Services Task Force and on the National Institutes of Health National Advisory Council for Nursing Research.

Dr. Melnyk is currently a member of the National Quality Forum’s Behavioral Health Steering Committee, the National Academy of Medicine’s Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-being and Resilience and is a member of the Board of Directors for the National Forum for Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention. She also serves as editor-in-chief of the journal Worldviews on Evidence-based Nursing.

In addition, Dr. Melnyk has received numerous national and international awards, including the inaugural NIH/NINR Director’s Distinguished Lectureship Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculty, the Loretta Ford Award from the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, the Nancy Sharpe Cutting-Edge Award by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, and the 2018 American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Pioneering Spirit Award. She also has been named an Edge Runner by the American Academy of Nursing three times and was inducted into Sigma Theta Tau International’s Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame.